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To: JDN who wrote (675803)	3/18/2005 11:21:08 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

"But the writer seemed to me to try and make it sound like something dishonest was going on" I agree --- there is no doubt that the author has his own axe to grind (that should be obvious just from the ALL CAPS screaming headline... even if you didn't know that the author is very 'leftie'.) "when in fact they only were trying to determine the best way to preserve and develop the Iraqi oil fields for the Iraqi's. jdn" Well, of course, that's the very HEART of this debate. When you take something that doesn't belong to you (except perhaps from the historical right of conquest --- but we never claimed that!), and then propose making decisions about what to do with it (ideological decisions) without considering the wishes of the natives... well, that opens a whole new can of worms. Like the article mentioned: our first military leader there in charge of the occupation totally rejected forced privatization. He was then swiftly YANKED by Washington and replaced by Bremmer (who pushed for privatization, and got Chalabi to go along), but then Big Oil opposed forced privatization (the legality would have been extremely dubious anyway) and the plan was dead. The Iraqis will make their own decisions about what to do with, what is, publically-owned Iraqi property.